The initial, in-house stab at a logo for the Android mobile operating system was quite a bit different from the robot we all now know, Google executive Dan Morrill wrote Thursday.

The initial, in-house stab at a logo for the Android mobile operating system was quite a bit different from the robot we all now know, Google executive Dan Morrill wrote Thursday.

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Recalling the heady, hectic days of 2007, Morrill wrote: "My job was developer relations, but I took a much-needed break of a couple hours and spent some quality time with Inkscape to create these... things."

Recalling the heady, hectic days of 2007, Morrill wrote: "My job was developer relations, but I took a much-needed break of a couple hours and spent some quality time with Inkscape to create these... things."

"See, we were prepping for an internal developer launch (meaning, we were going to ask Googlers to start fooling with the APIs and give us early feedback), and I had no eye candy for the slides we were putting together. Hence these guys." less

"See, we were prepping for an internal developer launch (meaning, we were going to ask Googlers to start fooling with the APIs and give us early feedback), and I had no eye candy for the slides we were putting ... more

Photo: Dan Morrill

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"They had a brief flurry of minor popularity amongst the team -- enough to pick up the nickname 'Dandroids,' anyway."

"They had a brief flurry of minor popularity amongst the team -- enough to pick up the nickname 'Dandroids,' anyway."